Geoff Keeling

Staff Research Scientist, Google

Philosopher working on the ethical and societal impacts of AI. Current interests include alignment, manipulation, trust, digital minds, and human-AI relationships. Recent highlights:

• New paper in Nature, ‘We need a new ethics for a world of AI agents,’ co-authored with Iason Gabriel, Arianna Manzini and James Evans.
• Book on AI welfare forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, co-authored with Winnie Street. You can hear us talk about it here.
• Collaborated with Jonathan Birch’s lab at the London School of Economics on Google’s first empirical study on machine sentience. Feature articles in Scientific American and Futurism.
• Led Google DeepMind report on the ‘Ethics of advanced AI assistants’ with Iason Gabriel and Arianna Manzini. 100+ citations in its first year. Media coverage in WIRED, the Verge and the Information.

Prior to Google, I was a postdoc at Stanford University under Rob Reich. Before that, I did my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Bristol with Richard Pettigrew and Brad Hooker.

Here is my CV.

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